US 7,510,600 B2
Gas purifying apparatus
Masaya Ibe, Susono (Japan); Hirohito Hirata, Suntou-gun (Japan); and Masaru Kakinohana, Susono (Japan)
Assigned to Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha, Toyota (Japan)
Filed on Feb. 17, 2006, as Appl. No. 11/355,973.
Claims priority of application No. 2005-075951 (JP), filed on Mar. 16, 2005.
Prior Publication US 2006/0207428 A1, Sep. 21, 2006
Int. Cl. B03C 3/013 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 96—52  [60/275; 95/58; 95/62; 96/66; 96/68] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
12. A gas purifying apparatus comprising:
an adsorption member that adsorbs particulate matter contained in gas supplied to the gas purifying apparatus by an action of an electric field;
a first electrode and a second electrode that are opposite in polarity and that are used to produce the electric field; and
a supply device that includes a discharge port that supplies a pro-oxidant for oxidizing the adsorbed particulate matter to the adsorption member; wherein:
the adsorption member is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode.